BALIG/1

According to Macalister/1945, 144, this stone was found `in an ancient burial-ground, callled Kilvickillane, on the shore of Smerwick Bay'. It was subsequently transferred in 1848 to Burnham, the seat of Lord Ventry, where it remains.

otherAccording to Macalister/1945, 144, this stone was found `in an ancient burial-ground, callled Kilvickillane, on the shore of Smerwick Bay'. It was subsequently transferred in 1848 to Burnham, the seat of Lord Ventry, where it remains.

someMacalister/1945, 144--145: `...rather worn...At first sight the D might seem to be a C, but the two additional scores which would have to be used are mere scratches and do not reach the angle. The S is faint: S3S4 are broken away. The final C is faint but traceable, just under the top of the stone: the top bears three apparent vowel-notches, reduced to evanescence, which might be the last three notches of the missing final I: the first two would, in any case, have disappeared, as the turn of the angle from the sinister edge is broken. But they are rather far away from the C, and, on the whole, I am doubtful about them, while admitting that the name probably ended with an I when it was intact'.